AKAZA – Oracle BPS

Overview

A highly digitalized and globalized environment; software applications are a necessity to run the operations of corporate enterprises. Well known for its relational database products, Oracle applications empower modern businesses by way of the software they provide to run enterprises .

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), in collaboration with Oracle provides a Business Process Services (BPS) offering for large and medium Enterprises within the Sri Lankan market and South Asian region.

The service includes outsourcing of operations and responsibilities relating to the functions of Human Resources, Finance, and Accounting as well as the role of Analytics and reporting for Companies within the manufacturing, retail, leasing and distribution industry segments.

BPS Offering

Hosted in a certified Oracle Virtualization platform in one of SLT’s state of the art Data Centres, Oracle EBusiness Suite Application licences will be provided on a monthly rental basis bundled with required virtual Infrastructure for applications inclusive of Finance, Procurement, Inventory Management, Order Management, Landed Cost Management, Warehouse Management, Human Resources and Payroll. Oracle EBusiness Suit (Version 12) is a web based product that can be managed from a single site and is accessible from multiple locations with a secure data link provided by SLT to access the hosted applications.

Oracle E-Business Suite is a tier-one, comprehensive ERP Solution which will streamline business operations and facilitate varied reporting requirements. The industry-specific solutions supplied by Oracle will add significant value by configuring business processes, speeding up the decision making process, reduce cost, and improve performance. The suite is also enhanced on an ongoing basis in alignment with changing market dynamics and customer demands to improve overall effectiveness.

Oracle Financials	Offers integrated financial management solutions inclusive of General Ledger, Cash, Payables, Receivables, and Fixed Assets.
Oracle Supplier Chain Management	Transforms traditional supply chains into integrated value chains encompassing Product Development, Demand Management, Sales & Operations, Planning, Transportation Management, and Supply Chain Management.
Oracle Human Resource Management	Provides an improved HRM solution inclusive of Recruiting, Time, Training, Compensation, Benefits and Payroll.
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Oracle Business Intelligence	An unmatched and comprehensive business intelligence and analytics platform that delivers a full range of capabilities

Application Management

Implementation

Application EBusiness Suite

Oracle Linux

Oracle VM for x86

Storage

Network

Benefits to the Business

Oracle’s latest ERP applications help enterprises innovate and adapt to new technologies which help them face intense competition, financial pressures and complex regulations of the global market.

Oracle E-Business Suite R12, the latest ERP solution combines the above functionalities and technologies to help enterprises leverage on enhanced productivity and agility.
Oracle EBS R12 Upgrade can help design the global structure of enterprises, and manage key processes in the backdrop of significant digital data volumes being generated.
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 is designed to help in better decision making for more competitiveness, while lowering costs and increasing performance.

SLT will undertake the provision of backups, Disaster Recovery (DR), sound network connectivity, and essentially customer support around the clock. The added benefits are as follows:

Productivity Improvement by way of seamless integrated performance solutions for different business functions – a complete end to end solution.
Low upfront investment cost - required hardware infrastructure (servers and storage) for hosting Oracle applications will be provided by SLT.
The ability to achieve universal compliance attains flexible reporting, reduce IT cost, and perform efficient integration is the main business strategy for enterprises to meet the global challenges today.
Simple, fast implementation
Outsourced management and monitoring of infrastructure, disaster recovery, network connectivity.
Scalability
Flexible Reporting & compliance
24/7 customer support
Adoption of industry best practices.

Functionality

Oracle’s EBS product stacks have market penetration in diverse business functions within an enterprise.

Oracle Financials

Oracle General Ledger
Provides highly automated financial processing and tools for effective management control. The Oracle General Ledger is considered the central repository of all accounting information of a business organization. The main purpose of a general ledger system is to record financial activity of a company and to produce financial and management reports to help people inside and outside the organization make decisions.
Oracle Cash Management
Enterprise cash management solution to manage cash cycles and liquidity. Cash Management gives you direct access to expected cash flows from your operational systems. Oracle Cash Management lets you automatically or manually record and reconcile bank statements, matching them against system transactions using rules and tolerance levels.
Oracle Payables
Improves margins, instills corporate and fiscal discipline, while optimizing business relationships. Payables processes such as invoice data capture, invoice matching against Oracle E-Business Suite, workflow processes etc.
Oracle Receivables
Streamlines invoicing, receipts, and customer deduction processing while improving cash flow, and optimizing customer relationships. Oracle Receivables processes invoices, manages parties and customer accounts, and processes invoices using Auto Invoice.
Oracle Fixed Assets
Provides a flexible and robust solution for fixed asset management. Assets now have event accounting, meaning that every transaction is treated as a new event to the assets.

Oracle Purchasing

Provides a comprehensive procurement solution. A Purchase order is a commercial document and the first official order issued by a buyer to his supplier, indicating types, quantities, and agreed prices for products or services to be provided.

Oracle Order Management

Improves and streamlines the order management process. Oracle Order Management is an order-to-cash solution that provides capabilities for customers, partners and employees to select the right products and services, negotiate the best prices and ensure timely fulfillment.

Oracle Inventory

Core module of the entire Oracle E-Business suite, it proactively monitors inventory levels and facility operations. This module shares the information with almost every other module. Oracle inventory lets you define items and forms the backbone of all inventory transactions.

Oracle HRM

Oracle HRMS is an integrated suite of applications that supports all aspects of the HR function. People are the most important ingredient of any business. This is why it becomes necessary for an enterprise to store organizational data along with employee data, and use it to effectively manage people related to the enterprise. Oracle HRM provides a very effective and scalable way to manage the Human Resource function of an enterprise.

Oracle BI

A comprehensive suite of data visualization, and a common Enterprise Information Model which allows business users to access corporate data more easily. Oracle BI has the ability to act on insight by invoking business processes from within and drive innovation. You will be able to explore and discover new insights by combining structured and unstructured data while experiencing extreme performance with Engineered Systems at a lower total cost of ownership.

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What is Cloud Computing?

The on-demand delivery of IT resources, applications and software via the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.

How Does it Work?

Cloud Computing provides a simple way to access servers, storage, databases and a broad set of application services over the Internet. Users virtually share the platform infrastructure, bandwidth etc.

What is AKAZA?

SLT's cloud computing solution is 'AKAZA' , hosted locally in SLT’s state-of the art Data Center can be used to store, access, and utilizes data by remote means using the Internet or IP VPN.It is Sri Lanka’s first fully automated Cloud computing platform with a comprehensive self -service portal.

What are the Basic Benefits from AKAZA?

•Pre-paid / Post paid options
•Service Monitoring/Alerts
•Single bill for all the services

•Automated Service Delivery
•Pay as you use
•Managed Services

Who can use AKAZA?

'AKAZA' is a fully fledged cloud platform that enables diverse businesses ranging from top enterprises, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), micro level business organizations and government institutions as well as mobile customers to leverage on SLT's vast ICT resources, which includes being connected to the largest fibre optic backbone infrastructure in the country. Customers who are adopting a cloud strategy in their IT projects to benefit from the scalability and cost efficiencies of delivering IT services to business requirements.